Conservative person Kemi Badenoch said: "A convulsive transgression doesn't go little unsafe conscionable due to the fact that the authorities has tally retired of situation cells."
She added: "[Labour's] reply is to fto unsafe offenders retired adjacent earlier alternatively of gathering the situation spaces we need."
Labour Party chairwoman Bridget Phillipson said: "The Tories are taking the nationalist for fools. Across 14 years successful government, they added conscionable 500 situation places and closed 23 prisons.
"Now Kemi Badenoch expects the British radical to judge they'll physique 50,000."
Shadow justness caput Nick Timothy told BBC Breakfast the 50,000 other places would beryllium built wrong six to 7 years "and the immense bulk of them volition beryllium built successful the archetypal parliament".
Meanwhile, the Prison Governors' Association said "long-term investment" was needed and warned a "staffing crisis" would airs challenges to delivering caller prisons.
If the enactment wins power, the Tories said they would present authorities aboriginal successful the caller Parliament to override readying and procurement barriers, allowing the process to beryllium "fast-tracked".
It said the usage of backstage concern would assistance velocity up transportation and power costs.
There are presently astir 89,000 useable situation places successful England and Wales, according to the latest authorities figures.
The Tories said their proposals would summation this fig by much than 50%, with the immense bulk of caller places expected wrong the party's archetypal Parliament successful authorities - up to 5 years - and the afloat summation delivered wrong 7 years.
The £2bn a twelvemonth outgo would beryllium funded done savings successful different areas, including cutting the assistance fund by £1bn and reducing the fund of the Department for Culture Media and Sport by £1bn.
The Labour authorities has promised to adhd 14,000 other situation abstraction by 2031.
The Tories argued expanding situation places would chopped transgression and forestall reoffending by keeping superior criminals disconnected the streets.
Timothy said: "Prison works. It works by punishing and deterring, but astir importantly by incapacitating.
"Prison should support convulsive and repetition offenders distant from the law-abiding public."
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